Yearly Archives: 2018

Summary report by Guy Maurice The World Health Organization was looking for two GIS professionals to serve as volunteers during the months of December 2017 and January 2018 to contribute to a pilot project in Mogadishu, Somalia. The project's objective…

Eadie Kaltenbacher, GISP, began volunteering with Oregon Environmental Council (OEC) in February 2018,as a way to combine what she was learning in her MBA program with her background in GIS.She initiated OEC’s partnership with Esri via an ArcGIS Online license…

Capital Area Food Bank is a non-profit organization working to solve hunger and its companion problems, such as chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity in the greater Washington, D.C. region. They requested a GISCorps volunteer to assist in configuring and…

During Hurricane Florence, FEMA requested assistance from GISCorps to build a map journal to catalog and centralize all their activities and products. An urgent request resulted in recruiting Katie Pickett, a volunteer from Washington, D.C., for this project. Katie created…

Food Aid Project, Inc. 501(c)(3) is a charitable purpose, nonprofit organization whose mission is to support food and economic security by increasing the efficiency of and access to the bulk food procurement and distribution network. They requested a GISCorps volunteer…

The Evolution of Emergency Copernicus Services (E2mC) Project, funded by the European Commission, was conceived to explore the integration of social media data mining, crowd-sourcing, and machine learning to improve the timeliness, accuracy, and precision of spatial data for rapid mapping…

The Train Campaign team contacted GISCorps in the spring of 2018 and requested help with online map creation. Two volunteers, Ellen Phillips and Linda Colin, were selected. The following story was written by Ellen Phillips. Karen Christensen of the Barrington Institute…

The following post was authored by Volunteer Adam Hufnagel with contributions from Humanity Road's Cat Graham and photos provided for use by USCG Petty Officer 3rd Class Shannon Kearney. When a powerful storm hits, it takes the urgent and thoughtful…

Hurricane Florence made landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on the morning of September 14, 2018. Although it had been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane by that time, Florence’s extremely slow progress and broad circulation resulted in historic flooding,…